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When Bestbuy or any electronic stores( or anything that actually worth money and stealing) receive their shipments from the airport, they always have armed escort follow the truck to the distribution center. This is a normal practice before all the civil unrest and defund the police cry.
I would imagjne electronic stores will hire Blackwater contractors armed with M4 rifles to escort the trucks to deliever to cities with defunded PD. Just like in Iraq
Cool. Any truck driver who refuses to deliver is subordinate -- fire them. Means more job openings for new drivers looking for work.
Where are these new drivers going to come from? It takes a minimum of six weeks to train the average person to drive an eighteen wheeler, and that’s just to learn the basics. It takes another three to six months operating with an experienced driver before the new driver is capable enough to run on his own.
Couple that with the fact that trucking has an insanely high turnover rate, and you have a situation where companies can’t afford to fire their drivers for looking out for their own safety. Any company that tried that tactic would go under in a matter of weeks once the word got out. Truckers, by definition, are independent minded people who are trying to safely support their families. Fire one for refusing to drive into an unpoliced war zone and the rest of your drivers are going to be leaving their trucks sitting at truck stops across the country.
Fire and replace is a workable solution for unskilled labor. It’s an impossible one for an industry that depends on a high level skill set such as trucking.
Truck Drivers say they won't deliver to cities with defunded PD's
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Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber
I am sure their competition is happy to hear that.
What competition? There are no rail spurs feeding directly into suburban shopping malls, and nowhere near as many into "wholesale districts" and grocery warehouses as was once the case. Rail and trucking enterprises operate largely in partnership today, with highway carriers used for the overwhelming majority of local pickup and delivery.
"If you've got it, a truck brought it." has never been as true as it is today.
What competition? There are no rail spurs feeding directly into suburban shopping malls, and nowhere near as many into "wholesale districts" and grocery warehouses as was once the case. Rail and trucking enterprises operate largely in partnership today, with highway carriers used for the overwhelming majority of local pickup and delivery.
"If you've got it, a truck brought it." has never been as true as it is today.
Competition=those truck companies who do not turn down business for political reasons.
What competition? There are no rail spurs feeding directly into suburban shopping malls, and nowhere near as many into "wholesale districts" and grocery warehouses as was once the case. Rail and trucking enterprises operate largely in partnership today, with highway carriers used for the overwhelming majority of local pickup and delivery.
"If you've got it, a truck brought it." has never been as true as it is today.
Actually, in my city, the railroad runs RIGHT BEHIND one of the largest shopping centers in the entire state...and yet all the stores rely on trucks to bring their goods, talk about being wasteful, the railroad tracks are literally feet away from their dock doors!!
Competition=those truck companies who do not turn down business for political reasons.
It isn’t the trucking companies refusing to deliver there. It’s the drivers refusing to risk their safety by driving into areas where there is no law enforcement. You may be able to find a few drivers who are willing to deliver into those areas, but not enough to keep the supply chain running.
Competition=those truck companies who do not turn down business for political reasons.
I don't want this thread to turn into a long session of petty squabbling, but for now let it suffice to say that market pressures in the freight industry are very complicated, and change constantly. The end of economic (rate) regulation unleashed a huge wave of new successes and old failures, and one of the most important was the weakening of the organized criminal syndicates that wielded power in certain industries -- apparel being the most prominent.
Within that framework -- the only certainty is change. Like agriculture, this is an industry where "influence" (political or criminal, and to some of us they're pretty much the same) is a joke.
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Originally Posted by rstevens62
Actually, in my city, the railroad runs RIGHT BEHIND one of the largest shopping centers in the entire state...and yet all the stores rely on trucks to bring their goods, talk about being wasteful, the railroad tracks are literally feet away from their dock doors!!
What isn't understood here is that "retail railroading" -- the delivery of even single-car / full carlaod shipments to local businesses (lumber yards, feed and grain dealers, "bulk plants" for fuel) is as dead as Abbot and Costello. Rigid work rules and high wage and benefit costs doomed the local "peddler freight" a long time ago.
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Cool. Any truck driver who refuses to deliver is subordinate -- fire them. Means more job openings for new drivers looking for work.
Yeah, and if you were a truck driver would you deliver to an area filled with rioters and put your life in danger? Thankfully most trucking companies will stop deliveries to cities deemed as dangerous to their employees.
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